NATO, Russia Fault Each Other for ‘Unsafe’ Baltic Jet Maneuvers

NATO and Russian Ambassadors will be meeting later this week in Brussels for a joint council, a meeting that aims to reduce tensions between the two forces. Right now, the tension is overwhelmingly built around successful mid-air interceptions by warplanes, with both sides faulting the other for unsafe behavior.

NATO’s complaints most center around NATO military planes getting intercepted in international airspace near the Russian border. Russia’s primary complaint is the NATO interception of a civilian airliner containing the Defense Minister, leading to a mid-air confrontation with the airliner’s escort.

Ambassadors on both side see the main solution to this recurring problem as better communication, with both sides being more willing to identify themselves when the other side’s air traffic control requests them to do so, and just less intercepts in general.

In practice, both sides’ pilots tend to be eager to show bravado during intercepts by getting unduly close, and the other side will always complain about that being unsafe, even if it’s pretty common and never seems to result in any accidents.

The real problem, rather seems to be the general level of hostility that leaves both sides always believing that the next approaching warplane could be the start of World War 3, and so long as that’s true, the interceptions will continue.

2 thoughts on “NATO, Russia Fault Each Other for ‘Unsafe’ Baltic Jet Maneuvers”

The real problem is why the F the US, thousands of miles from its own borders, and it’s vassals, Germany most notably (again) are marching up and down Russia’s borders, strutting around with their junk, waving US flags and issuing inflammatory war cry statements rallying it’s “allies” from a safe distant but uses quite another tone face to face at negotiations and meetings.

A Polish F16 under US order no doubt, threatening the Russian defence minister before being chased away ( and during a time when several Russian officials and even Putins chauffeur have been bumped off or “heart attacked” like Russia’s envoy to U.N. Vitally Churkin) shows that Pentagram & CIA are playing a very dangerous game. The Russian patience is admirable but when they have had enough of it, the response will come without any warning.

The 5 Chechnian men that Russia’s former deputy Prime Minister outside of the Kremlin were found guilty of murder and we’re sentenced to a Russian penal colony.B Boris Nemtsov was Boris Yeltsin’s Prime Minister in the early 90’s and was set to speak about the corruption in Russia and about what Russia was doing in Ukraine the next day but,was assassinated.Rest in peace Mr.Nemtsov a true Anti-war hero that died taking on the Russian government for his Russian people.USA